How to Use These
These are example prompts, not fixed scripts. You can copy and paste any of them directly into Seedance 2.5 inside Artlist and swap in your own uploaded image. Or you can take the style description and feed it into Claude, ChatGPT, or any other AI tool and ask it to write a custom story around your own character, product, or idea using that same visual style.
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Each prompt below focuses purely on the animation style: the look, the camera technique, and what to avoid. The story and character are intentionally left open so you can write your own scene, whether that’s a product reveal, a character moment, or anything else you’re building.
Just describe your own action or story beat where indicated, and the AI keeps the visual style consistent throughout. Try it now inside Artlist.
1. Stylized 3D
Create a cinematic stylized 3D animation using the uploaded image as the exact character and visual reference. Keep the same character identity, face, hair, clothing, proportions, and environment throughout. Premium animated-film quality, detailed materials, expressive facial animation, cinematic lighting.
Describe your own short story or action sequence here, broken into quick beats (a reaction, a discovery, a reveal, a burst of movement).
Use fast hard cuts, whip pans, close-ups, and dynamic camera movement to tell the story. No slow slideshow pacing, no morphing, no character redesign, no text.
2. 1980s Anime
Create a fast-paced cinematic 1980s Japanese anime action sequence using the uploaded image as the exact reference. Keep the same character, face, outfit, weapon or props, environment, and authentic hand-drawn cel-shaded style throughout.
Describe your own action sequence here (a threat appearing, a reaction, a chase, a climactic moment).
Use fast cuts, impact frames, speed lines, dramatic perspectives, and aggressive camera movement. Preserve authentic hand-drawn 1980s anime aesthetics. No 3D, no photorealism, no character redesign.
3. Urban 3D Anime
Create a high-energy cinematic Urban 3D Anime chase sequence using the uploaded image as the exact visual reference. Keep the same character, face, hairstyle, clothing, vehicle or environment, and lighting consistent throughout.
Describe your own chase or action sequence here (something approaching, a getaway, a pursuit through the environment).
Use whip pans, rapid tracking shots, push-ins, hard cuts, and dynamic perspective changes. No slow camera drift, no morphing, no redesign.
4. Illustrative 2D
Create a cinematic illustrative 2D animated mini-story using the uploaded image as the exact reference. Preserve the same character, face, clothing, setting, colors, and hand-drawn illustrated style. Not anime and not 3D.
Describe your own short story here (a small moment of urgency, a race against time, a relief or payoff at the end).
Use fast hand-drawn animation, strong poses, expressive reactions, dynamic camera movement, and clean cinematic cuts. No 3D conversion, no photorealism, no random scenes.
5. Makoto Shinkai Style
Create a emotional cinematic animation in Makoto Shinkai style using the uploaded image as the exact character and visual reference. Preserve the same face, hairstyle, clothing, proportions, and character identity.
Describe your own quiet, emotional moment here (a character standing somewhere reflective, a small gesture, movement through a beautiful environment).
Use hyper-detailed backgrounds, glowing skies, realistic atmospheric perspective, soft sunlight, lens flare, beautiful clouds, reflective surfaces, emotional expressions, and subtle wind movement. Dreamy cinematic Japanese animation aesthetic, luminous colors, highly polished backgrounds, and smooth expressive animation. No 3D CGI, no photorealistic humans, no random shots.
6. Painterly 3D
Create an aggressive painterly 3D animated sequence using the uploaded image as the exact reference. Preserve the same character, face, hair, clothing, environment, and painterly visual style with your chosen color palette.
Describe your own escalating action sequence here (a power building up, a reaction, an environment responding, a final release of energy or motion).
Use fast cuts, dramatic lighting, strong camera movement, and cinematic effects. Keep the painterly animated-series aesthetic. No photorealism, no redesign, no text.
7. Pixel Art
Create a fast-paced cinematic pixel-art sequence using the uploaded image as the exact reference. Keep the same character sprite, setting, colors, pixel resolution, and authentic handcrafted pixel-art style throughout.
Describe your own short sequence here (an alert or discovery, a response, a machine or environment reacting, a final reveal).
Use fast pixel animation, sprite movement, screen flicker, mechanical or environmental motion, and cinematic cuts. No smoothing, no 3D, no photorealism, no random character changes.
8. Painterly 2D
Create a fast-paced cinematic painterly 2D animation using the uploaded image as the exact reference. Keep the same character, face, clothing, setting, lighting, and hand-painted style throughout.
Describe your own short story here (something unusual appearing, a community or group noticing, a wide reveal at the end).
Use fast cinematic cuts, painterly textures, atmospheric depth, and dynamic camera movement. Keep the exact illustrated style. No 3D, no anime, no photorealism.
9. Arcane Style
Create a dark gothic cinematic animation using the uploaded image as the exact visual and character reference. Preserve the character’s face, hairstyle, outfit, proportions, and overall Arcane-inspired visual identity.
Describe your own short story here (movement through a moody environment, a sudden disturbance, a sharp reaction, an ending that reveals the bigger picture).
Use fast cuts between close-ups, low-angle shots, and dynamic tracking. Dark atmosphere, dramatic painterly textures, detailed environments, cinematic lighting, deep shadows, expressive facial animation, volumetric smoke, rain, sparks, and strong color contrast. Highly polished animated-series quality, sophisticated 2D/3D hybrid look, dramatic and cinematic. No photorealism, no anime, no random scene changes.
10. Neo-Noir Comic
Create a fast, cinematic Neo-Noir Comic action sequence using the uploaded image as the exact character and style reference. Keep the same character exactly as shown: face, features, outfit, accessories, and proportions. Do not redesign or change them.
Preserve the exact illustrated Neo-Noir style: bold black ink outlines, gritty painted textures, deep black/navy shadows, intense highlight colors, dramatic comic-book shading, and polished graphic-novel rendering. Not anime, not 3D, not photorealistic.
Describe your own action sequence here (a confrontation, a fight, an explosion or chase, a calm and dramatic final pose).
Use fast hard cuts, whip pans, low-angle shots, tracking shots, rapid push-ins, and a dramatic final pullback. Smooth hand-drawn comic animation with detailed environmental effects (fire, smoke, sparks, fabric or hair movement) and cinematic lighting. No morphing, no face change, no outfit change, no character redesign, no random scenes, no text, no subtitles, no watermark.
Tips for Customizing These
The part you should focus on rewriting is the story beat description in the middle of each prompt. Keep the style, technique, and negative prompt instructions (the “no 3D,” “no morphing,” “no redesign” lines) exactly as written, since those are what lock in the visual style and character consistency.
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If you want AI to help write your specific story, paste the style description into Claude or ChatGPT and ask something like “write a 10-second action sequence in this style featuring [your character or product], broken into quick camera beats.” It will generate a timeline you can drop straight into the prompt.
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